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The Americas' team made a landmark sperm whales discovery in producing the groundbreaking NBC nature documentary series.
Sonar, originally SONAR, an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging, allows animals (or man-made devices like submarines) to ...
Afloat.ie reader Liam Thompson has shared some remarkable footage of a large group of dolphins in Glandore in early May 2025 ...
There’s no maternity leave for whale mothers who give birth early – they just have to keep swimming with their calves until ...
A recent study, published in Papers in Palaeontology, discusses the reanalysis of the only known Idiorophus patagonicus ...
"I think it was looking for something to eat...". "I checked to see if it had any nets or problems, but it was perfectly fine ...
The pilot whale calf was seen surfacing and swimming slightly to the side and behind a female orca, in a position known as ...
Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae) are master migrators. Some populations of this baleen whale species travel upwards of 5,000 miles per year from colder waters to feed, towards warmer tropical ...
The context in which the “symbolically-charged” tooth was found “is as interesting as the tooth itself,” researchers said.
A large group of sperm whales has been sighted between 8 and 10 nautical miles off the northern coast of Mallorca, in the waters between Sa Calobra and Punta Beca. The remarkable encounter occurred ...
In its adult form, the animal is larger than the giant squid or any other invertebrate on Earth, and can grow 6-7 metres long ...